SearchThisVideo: LOMA Systems – Measuring Success

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aloma systems is a global supply of

equipment for the food industry we

supply machines to companies who want to

check for quality of the product going

down the production line so this is

looking for contaminant or checking for

the weight of product or even looking

for real foreign body detection which we

use our x-ray machines for so we have 10

sites globally and four of those are

actually design centers we use soft

works

mechanical 3d CAD as well as PDM pro and

we also now use that sort of works

electrical for loma we felt SolidWorks

was the best fit in terms of flexibility

and mechanical design I think with our

new x-ray product being able to

visualize all the space and fit all the

components before we actually cut any

metal was a huge benefit to us

SolidWorks electrical came a little

later than the mechanical but we're

working on integrating that in with the

3d CAD so that we can work on routing

and that means we can layout wiring

looms into our mechanical designs to get

the cable links exactly right sheet

metal is very important for loma we do a

huge amount of sheet metal work

including weldments

that's that's something that's really

saved us a little time in our production

base we have some computers which allow

the production team to access design

information and assemblies so they can

see how the assembly is meant to go

together they can measure from that and

that means that they don't have to

disturb engineers and stop the engineers

from doing their work they can just

answer all the questions really from the

design data that's available on screen

to sebacean awareness inside the cabinet

is quite important you know for the

x-ray generator we need space for for

the air aeration of that let's keep it

cool and it's much more easy to

visualize what goes on inside the

cabinet we have a 3d package importing

3d models from supplies they supply the

imaging step file and were able to

import that so that's very useful it

saves a lot of time we have four servers

for CAD and they replicate data and

people can actually share data from the

central master PDM database so suppliers

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can actually access through a web portal

our PDM system and through a system of

drawing issue and control that means

that we can give them access to only

approved drawings and drawing data so

this includes models so if they need to

have a CNC model to be able to create a

opponent Philomath then we can produce

that

we're looking at implementing a new ERP

system and we'd like to integrate our

new ERP with the PDM and the Bill of

Materials in mechanical SolidWorks so

that means we'd have a bi-directional

link of information for Bills of

materials previously we were on an old

ME 10 2d CAD system and it takes a while

to switch between a 2d and 3d because

you have to build up your 3d data but

once you've done that and care tech were

very helpful during that process in

terms of training and support engineers

and share screens with the CAD tech

staff they access it through the actual

SolidWorks application itself with the

extranet portal just log a call via

email if they wish to and so that's

definitely used across the world